Improve Your Eyesight

Attention Sri Lankans, Vision 2020 Secretariat of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry and the College of Opthalmologists of Sri Lanka has organised a huge program to provide quality eye care services for over 200,000 IDPs at welfare camps in Vavuniya and Cheddikulam.

IDPs are Internally displaced persons, IDPs are people forced to flee their homes but [...]

A new survey conducted by the Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) to help allergy sufferers better understand and manage the condition.
Major findings:
* Spring was identified by 67% of respondents as the most troublesome time of year for eye-related allergies. Over half (51%) say they experience eye allergy symptoms all year long. One-quarter of [...]

FDA warns that advertisements of Lasik surgeries should not be misleading and have to be truthful regarding associated risk factors.

For quite some time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the complaints of the patients regarding Lasik procedure. The FDA have asked the healthcare providers that commercials and other promotions that do not convey [...]

Men, if you are going to have a cataract surgery, then just beware of Flomax (tamsulosin hydrochloride) manufactured by  Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc..

According to a new study it may led to serious eye complications if taken after a cataract surgery. The study was published in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical [...]

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., has launched , a new eye care  program specially designed to help contact lens wearers.

Through VISTAKON(R), a Division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., the company has launched ACUVUE(R) DIRECT(TM), a special program that help enable contact lense warer experience the most convenient and affordable way [...]